[governance] [BBC] Turkey moves to block YouTube access after 'audio leak'

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Much like Thaksin Shinwatra in Thailand, Erdogan's main support base is the rural poor, not very many of whom, at least in Turkey, use social media of any sort, and his bet is that they will continue to appreciate hardline nationalist rhetoric and populist handouts.

So whether or not there are protests on social media and in the cities, where people don't care much for him anyway, is not going to make too much of a difference is what I feel.

--srs (iPad)

> On 29-Mar-2014, at 18:28, Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Suresh, and I just learned from local friend there that there will be local election tomorrow, Sunday, and the outcome might affect the next course of actions of the current administration, who is suffering from serious information leakage from the top level of the government, including possible war plan.
> 
> Let's see.
> 
> izumi
> 
> 
> 2014-03-29 20:34 GMT+09:00 Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>:
>> Social media is key to make IGF interactive.  If it gets banned and treated with contempt, there is absolutely no way to distinguish the conference from say a traditional closed door ITU meeting in Geneva.  I agree, IGF should not be held in Turkey, at least till the current regime changes its policies and/or is removed from power.
>> 
>> --srs (iPad)
>> 
>>> On 29-Mar-2014, at 15:58, Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear CS friends,
>>> 
>>> It's quite uncomfortable to know the recent development of censorship on social media by Turkish Government. 
>>> Now YouTube after twitter. 
>>> 
>>> Here's one piece.
>>> 
>>> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26773702
>>> 
>>> What's next?
>>> 
>>> Shouldn't CS people raise our voice to the host country of IGF2014 as soon as possible?
>>> 
>>> NETMundial is important, but this is also very significant to us.
>>> 
>>> izumi
>>> 
>>> 
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